LawTalkers - Fashion Board--Penske . . . forever!

Originally posted by Spanky
Weir's book sounds like the HBO special. Besides the personal sacrifices, does your book focus on the politics or is it still lean more towards the Harloquin romance stuff.

Definitely not a Harlequin style book and it focuses on the politics. As I said in my earlier post, since it relies on a lot of primary documents. It was written in the late 50s, so before the pop-historical style that Weir likes so much came into vogue. To Weir's credit, I think she gets a lot of people to read history that probably wouldn't bother otherwise.

ThurgreedMarshall

08-23-2006 05:05 PM

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Originally posted by Spanky
I am not that interesting. I have just wasted too much of my life chasing skirts.

I have never been quite sure what subjects fly here, but here goes.

I am too lazy to go the Gym, so I workout at home, but I am pretty good about staying with it. I used to do two sets of fifty pushups. I decided to push up my whole work out routine, which included moving from fifty push ups to one hundred push ups.

I was able to double all my other routines, but I can't get past seventy push ups. I have been stuck there for three weeks now. I just get to around seventy and can't do any more.

Anyone know what is going on?

You have reached a plateau. You can't keep getting stronger forever. Increase your protein intake and you'll build muscle and get stronger.

TM

robustpuppy

08-23-2006 05:05 PM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
You have reached a plateau. You can't keep getting stronger forever. Increase your protein intake and you'll build muscle and get stronger.

TM

Venison. It's what's for dinner.

sebastian_dangerfield

08-23-2006 05:06 PM

Lactation

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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
This is why I come to the FB.

For the record, I cannot suck my own cock.

Actually, the latter is the reason you're here...

Or anywhere but your home.*

*Or cardboard box.

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)

08-23-2006 05:07 PM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
You have reached a plateau. You can't keep getting stronger forever. Increase your protein intake and you'll build muscle and get stronger.

TM

Penske and flower can help if you don't like protein.

Spanky

08-23-2006 05:07 PM

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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Try doing your pushups in sets of 20. You will get to 100 no problem.

I guess I wasn't clear. I was doing two sets of fifty. So I was getting to 100 no problem. I did that for years. But I got the point where I wasn't looking any better so I pushed up all my numbers. But with the pushups I just couldn't go past seventy. It was just weird. With all the other excercizes the more I did them, the more reps I could do. But with pushups I just hit a wall with seventy.

Every day I get up and tell my self that this is the day I get past seventy, but it never happens.

sebastian_dangerfield

08-23-2006 05:08 PM

Lactation

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Originally posted by tmdiva
I don't know about RP, but I don't think I ever tried. I don't think pre-baby/ies my breasts would have been able to reach that far. Too firm.

As for the sustenance aspect, tasty as it is I think I would have a problem because I'm lactose intolerant, and breast milk is very high in lactose.

tm

That explains the gas...

Hank Chinaski

08-23-2006 05:09 PM

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Originally posted by spookyfish
I didn't realize there was a whole "method," although, as a general rule, I am a great believer in eye contact.

I'm not big on these clubs, so I'm just asking: doesn't eye contact ruin the main purpose of being there? I get the play Spanky's making, but it seems a big risk with little % chance of reward.

sebastian_dangerfield

08-23-2006 05:10 PM

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Originally posted by Spanky
As Less is my witness, I have done it twice. The trick is to look them in the eye during the lap dance. No one does that. And then comment on their eye color, no one else does that. Then, talk to them about a subject completely unrelated to sex that the stripper thinks she knows something about. Pretend you are really interested and listen intently. If she has already made the money she wanted to make that evening, or if she has given up because it is a slow night, you just might be in business.

This story ends with an insurance claim for a stolen diving watch and a bill from a locksmith for new deadbolts.

Spanky

08-23-2006 05:10 PM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
You have reached a plateau. You can't keep getting stronger forever. Increase your protein intake and you'll build muscle and get stronger.

TM

If I increase my protein intake will I be able to hit a hundred or will I just get bigger. I know I am sounding a little obsessive here but it was a goal I set for myself and it is rather frustrating not being able to get there.

notcasesensitive

08-23-2006 05:10 PM

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Originally posted by Penske_Account
True story:

I used to go to strip clubs by myself, and I don't think it was creepy.

Back when I lived in DC and was a student, I resided in a number of apartments/houses over a number of years that were (a) in Georgetown or slightly north of it, proper; and (b) lacked washing machines/dryers. There was a laundrymat on Wisconsin Ave. north of G-town. Next door was a stripper bar-can't remember the name, but it was sleazy. Across the street was a stripper bar, Good Guys. I'd go do my laundry and while I was waiting for wash and dry cycles to cycle, I'd go watch the strippers and drink beer. And I got one to go home w/ me, albeit via an encounter in the laundrymat, she was doing her laundry between sets and a conversation about fabric softener led to another thing....

true story: I was friends with a stripper* who worked in DC for a while at a strip club that was located near Sign of the Whale. I forget the name of the stripping establishment. Do you know it?

*adding my anecdotal evidence to Spanky's, she was crazy, had low self-esteem and had a pretty bad coke habit (which tended to make her all the more crazy). she could be a lot of fun though.

pony_trekker

08-23-2006 05:11 PM

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Originally posted by Spanky
I guess I wasn't clear. I was doing two sets of fifty. So I was getting to 100 no problem. I did that for years. But I got the point where I wasn't looking any better so I pushed up all my numbers. But with the pushups I just couldn't go past seventy. It was just weird. With all the other excercizes the more I did them, the more reps I could do. But with pushups I just hit a wall with seventy.

Every day I get up and tell my self that this is the day I get past seventy, but it never happens.

Count by twos.

Hank Chinaski

08-23-2006 05:11 PM

The Not Bob phone just rang -- apparently, I have to depose Fugee next week.

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Originally posted by Penske_Account
I invented that joke.

umm, if by "I' you mean "Hank" then, 2.

ThurgreedMarshall

08-23-2006 05:11 PM

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In the alternative, you could:

1. Stop telling yourself that; or

2. Get a weight vest or put some books on your back and try to get to 70. After a few weeks of that, I guarantee you break 70 if you remove the weight.

TM

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